Another Day, Another…blog?

I didn't know that goodreads had a blog option. I didn't use goodreads for more than tracking the reading of friends as well as my own reading. (My "to read" list has gotten rather large!) This is something new to learn. Maybe I will keep up with it. At least, something to think about.

So, for my first entry (on goodreads), the good/bad news. I just sent my mostly formatted completely self-edited manuscript (meaning as clean as I could make it re: errors, story flow, etc.) off to my editor. Is it normal to come to the end of a project and decide, unreservedly, that you hate your work, you may never write again, and it's all a sham. Or, that I am a sham? The "mostly formatted" part comes from fighting with my word processing program--trying to get it to take my formatting over what *it* thinks is the best way to do things. Sigh. That, I can (almost?) deal with.

The other part, hating my work, is strange. I didn't want to edit my stories at all. Never really did more than talk about collecting them into an anthology to publish. When I did finally sit down (after getting fired up from editing my friend's THIRD collection) I was actually enjoying the process. Some of the stories were older--from several years ago. Fresh eyes on the work. Fresh ideas on making them better. Many of the stories were, to me, actually pretty well written and fun/interesting. Wow! Did I write that???

After hours and hours and hours...you get the point...of editing, then the formatting, I feel like I should forget it. I'm a fraud. I can't write. Failure. So, I'm going to take this as just a let down from the intensive editing marathon I've been on and believe it will pass. Move on to another project and take several deep breaths. I'm sure I'm not the only struggling writer who has hit this sort of wall. It just seems rather strange. Guess I was hoping for a very large sigh of relief and a sense of accomplishment. Maybe that will come later. Like, when my intrepid editor starts sending me glowing reviews of my work? Hey, a girl can dream, right?

Now that I have written this, I think I'll copy it to my website, since I have been neglecting that again. Kill two birds with one stone...

Well, this was fun!,/p>